Oh my I still made so horrible mistakes even though it wasn't posted late night. ぬ、め are actually easy to differ. I made them clear to my self so that ぬ is the hiragana of いぬ so dogs tail is in ring.. similar to pig's tail. other is without that loop. But sometime it's still difficult. about katakana I better don't start complain yet. Because I have only learn some very few.

I have tried also to practice to write hiragana with pencil to paper and also with computer by using a tablet, but my handwriting is so ugly, that It makes me depressed to see it. In general I try to avoid to write by hand only when sing some time some document.. or when I'm really forced to write something I use these shifted romanji letters used to start a sentence.

I think you want to say "I goofed off again." If so, you should say また rather than もういちど.

Yes I wanted to say that I goofed off again. So then. ぼく は また れんしょう を なまけました。

プーチ の そうすいかん が また こわれていました。 それで みんな は おゆ が ありません。

Actually one very hard thing is to come up with good sentences, that I'm actually able to but into Japanese. It's no point to go straight to too difficult sentences that I don't understand at all, but I can't also say things like たんぽぽ は いぬ たべた。 (Dandelion ate dog.) for ever.

きょう、 わたしたち は けんざい の みせ に いきました。 くぎ や ラッカー や モンタージュフォーム など を かいとりました。I don't actually know when it's appropriate to use だの; it must be pretty rare, as I don't remember running into it in my reading. と is used only in complete lists; since you're giving only examples of what you bought, the incomplete list particle や should be used to link the list items, with など optionally attached to the end of the list.

When dealing with motion verbs like いく, を marks the place of departure, not the destination, which should be marked with に or へ.

But if you want to attach some description to the something, you place the adjective after 何か, and then to have a verb operate on it, you need to attach a generic noun - こと or もの - after the adjective.

Erm, is this even the right place for me to ask about that? It's still practice, but I know there's a grammar area, too... Sorry for my complete beginner skills. T_T I've been in a class for a year, but the next level was cancelled - the one that would have been almost solely dedicated to the -te form - so my classmates and I are testing into the intermediate level in the fall... but we have to sort of tackle the -te form on our own before then.

I have a sort of unrelated question. I use Microsoft IME for other languages, and it's a real pain to have to click to switch between them. Is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle between English and Japanese?

Akiahara wrote:I have a sort of unrelated question. I use Microsoft IME for other languages, and it's a real pain to have to click to switch between them. Is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle between English and Japanese?

alt+shift will cycle through languages. I don't know of any way to cycle back and forth between just two languages. EXCEPT!

The Japanese IME allows for "direct input" which is the same as regular English input. So if you leave it on the JP bar, you can use alt+~(tilde, next to the 1 key) to swap between direct input and hiragana.

Do you want to say "What's in your okonomiyaki?" If so you're missing なに (what).

わたし は いなりずし が たべたい です けど、もっていない。にわとり の サーンドーイチ （？？） が たべました。

持つ(もつ) doesn't work exactly like English "have", so in this case you'd want ありません。Also you can just say チキンサンド . When talking about the meat rather than the bird, chicken is usually called either とりにく or チキン. Finally the object (チキンサンド) should take を rather than が here.